marc fleury wrote:
> |In the default configuration of most Linux kernels, there is a maximum
> |of 512 processes and/or threads, which is a compiled-in limit (at
> |least up through 2.2 - I haven't checked 2.4). A normal user by
> |default can only create a maximum of 256 processes/threads, so your
> |load test is doomed to failure on most Linux systems, at least with a
> |JVM which uses native threads. A green threads JVM would most likely
> |survive it, though, although then you lose scalability on SMP systems.
>
> yes we will test 2.4 (compiled for our machine specifically, beast, we will
> see)
If you would like to test on Linux with more available
threads it is simple: Just change the constant NR_TASKS
in include/linux/tasks.h and recompile your kernel.
But I still cannot see how you could crash the kernel
by starting many threads. The only way that should be
possible is if you are root.
Best Regards,
Ole husgaard.
